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The wind of the Light stirs within the heart of the world and the candle of infinite Love is lit by the hand of God. Its rays penetrate the distance of far-off space - and the commitment of the universe will not reduce matter to a cinder. Instead it shall glow as a coal from the altar until the images penetrating space are the images of Light, the images of resurgence, the mystique of the Divine that inhabits form.
For form is inhabited by the Divine by decree. And the loftiness of those thoughts which are placed within the realm of finite man are truly the Eucharist of the universe, the sacred vestments of the Lord Christ conveyed to each by the hand of God. For man receives from the high priest of all heaven the sacred communion in honor of the marriage feast of the Lamb.
Behold the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world! Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins, the stains, of the world! And the glowing white of purity is a fluttering dove upon the altar. And regeneration speaks to men of new hope flashing forth its fires within the melding of hearts, blending then one into the other in those gentle cadences as a series of waterfalls from distant mountains or the trumpeting, the glow of Life upon the face of a waiting world. O compassion, how magnificent is thy domain!
Will you understand, then, that as the hour of the appearance of God literally takes mankind by storm, there are the first beginnings of the stirring of the return of Christ to a waiting world? For some have thought that this would occur as on an instant, as though within one instant the cloud from the East to the West would encompass the world, as though all would be finished and done - those that were not ready would be left lost and forgotten; those that were ready would be seized and taken. They have not always understood the divine plan. They have not understood the loftiness of the heavenly conference, the intent of Divinity, the conference of all the great ones of heaven with Divinity.
Will you understand with me, then, the confluence of universal energy and its purposes? Will you realize, then, that the dawn of purpose is also to be perceived right before your gaze? For behold, the kingdom of heaven is with men! And the incoming of the Christ, though it appear as a thief in the night (one being taken and another left) is still the miracle of the ages extending itself to all ages.
Will you realize, then, that though the coming be swift or slow, when Divinity begins to strike while its heavenly iron is hot - when the rod of iron comes forth unto the world, when the great Divine Manchild appears - this is not necessarily meshed with the human gears of man's estimates of time but is a timeless circumstance that occurs as God wills it to all ages, thus providing the renewal of opportunity to those who were frustrated by man's requirement, seemingly, to perform the rite of absolute consecration, of absolute perfection as of a given moment.
Do you understand, O blessed ones, that the Law that has been dispensed from the beginning is the law of gentleness and the fragrance of Love? Then understand all the hurt that has come to countless hearts simply because they have maimed themselves. They stand imperfectly before their God. Their cries for forgiveness often echo to God even with the crime. And mankind do not understand why there are propensities and desires within them that lead them astray.
If only they would recognize that all darkness need not move them, that the absolute Light of perfection within them is the stave against all darkness, the power to remove every stain. Then, you see, the weight of the world's karma could be lifted. For this is the purpose of all chastening in life: it is intended to be a perfector, to be a resurrector of divine identity, to make men turn from circles and cycles of darkness toward cycles of holy Light, where the radiance of tomorrow may be that fresh, white radiance on the face of God that is stainless and pure.
O mankind, so beautiful are the thoughts of wholeness - freedom from distress! So beautiful are the thoughts of love to the family of nations!
From your part of the nation, where the great negative focuses of San Francisco blend across the nation with the darkness of other large cities, where there is a merge throughout the world of pain and anguish (karmic situations becoming emboldened to new destructivity), to the grass shacks in New Zealand and parts of South America, where the poverty and the groping of hands anhungered even for earthly bread creates a cry of pain that comes often to the Karmic Lords - when darkness in Bombay and in the streets of Peking also is a gross darkness, when the world is in pain and struggle, bondage and blindness - mankind's hearts, as they perceive these pictures, are troubled, and they cry out, "O God, how long and why?"
O mankind, the "how long" is so much up to you and the "why" is also. When you understand that the relief of every human bondage, of all binding of mankind, is imminent in the Christ consciousness, then the darkness of the world is no longer so terrible, because it is relievable. We can lift the pall and burden of the world. We can ease the bite and struggle of life. We can stop and detoxify tooth and claw, and convey to mankind the gift that is above the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
O beloved children of the world, you hold a very real part of all of this when you begin to understand simply that God wills to deliver - that in your hands lies a gift most precious and priceless but one you must first give to yourself ere you can convey it to another.
Do you understand then the gift of faith - the faith to realize that your own blessed life is a purpose that extends like lightning from the East unto the West, that bringeth Christ consciousness and awareness into the funnel of mankind's perceptivity until at last their blessed selves may smile the smile of hope? And hope may penetrate all shards of society - not just the outer, exterior guardianship of man's individual personality or family or fortune, but instead all that he holds near and dear within the deepest recesses of his heart.
How infinite is Love! How beautiful is each one's portion - the opportunity of the prodigal! O beloved mankind, there is so much now depending upon your response, so much depending upon the summoning. And so we summon! We ask and we receive.
We ask tonight, then, that you recognize the thoughtform [for 1973] in the hands of the Great One descending now through the glowing cloud. For what is the thoughtform? The thoughtform is the hand of God holding a torch of hope, of faith, and of charity to the world, to all mankind.
It is simply a descending hand, firm and strong as praying hands. For these are the hands of God. The left hand of God is hidden from view, but the right hand of God penetrates the cloud. And man beholds in the hand of God a blazing torch which must be passed unto another.
And so each of you must understand that in the forthcoming year it is a solemn responsibility for you, if you would do the will of heaven, to pass the torch to another while still fulfilling its destiny for yourself. Do you understand that you cannot pass it until you have fulfilled some grand and glorious act of service unto the Brotherhood - the bringing of some soul a ray of light or of hope? This is not contrary to man's will. It is a part of God's will within man.
As I stand here addressing you then this evening, it is my desire to acquaint you with a circumstance concerning your own activity here in Santa Barbara, in Colorado Springs, and in many parts of the world. Some of you may recall one who passed from you some time ago, the first Mother of the Flame who later became the Regent Mother. Well, I want you to know that tonight at inner levels she is with you. Her name upon earth, Louise Kieninger, will kindle in many of you a response of her great love.1
I want you to understand that her body is no longer gray or crooked in any way. Her form no longer reflects age but only the beauty of her earliest youth and maturity. Upon her face there is a glow of hope and sweetness and love. Her keynote is indeed that which was played to you upon the violin this very evening, "Calm As the Night."
I want you to know that she will be with you until this service shall break up. Until you shall leave and depart these doors, she will be with you this night, giving her love and her counsel at inner levels to you, conveying her blessing to you as the first Mother of the Flame. And she shall, ere the night pass, give to the present Mother of the Flame2 a torch charged with the vital fires from God's heavenly altar and the conveyance of a vast mission to illumine the world's children and produce the blessing of true culture to the age and unto all people everywhere.
Is this, then, not a great blessing to those of you who can understand it - and even to those who cannot? It is the conveyance of a soul into its higher octave of Light, into the ritual of its ascension.
Do you understand, then, that as this goal that was once given to her and promised unto her by Mary the Mother of Jesus herself3 has been achieved and fulfilled, this blessed soul desires that you should feel the currents of her love even now? And heaven itself asks that the angels that accompany me, the beautiful devas, will fold their wings, as it were, in adoration to her Divine Presence. [silence]
And there was silence in heaven. For out of the far reaches of silence, men may summon the loftiest thoughts. And new ideas shall instill in the mind the benediction of eternal Life. Eternal Life was intended for ye all. Each of you were destined and are destined to inherit eternal Life.
Pause now at the threshold of the year and consider for a moment what the boon is of the flame within the heart, of the precious gift - the oil of individuality that is poured out upon each individual, upon each person, upon each son and daughter of God. This is the fragrance of myrrh, of frankincense, and the worth of spiritual gold. This is the gift of the ages. It will be merited because God wills it so.
Who can deny the All-Father
The gift of the summoning of His plan?
Who can deny the All-Father
The great bond of Life unto man?
Who can separate from a universe of givingness
All of the radiance of immortal livingness?
I AM the one, the Buddha unfolding
Upon the altar of each one, now `golding'
His soul with the metal of spiritual grace
To keep his blessed pace
With the beat, the heartbeat of Life
That emboldens, that declares:
"Lo, I AM fulfilling in ye now My divine intent."
And will you decide that all of this that we produce for your comfort, for your admonishment, for your blessing, is but an act of a human being? Do you think it is a mockery, when it is an offering of our hearts unto each of you? The Buddha is the unfolding Divinity within you all - the little bud upon the stalk of Life that blazes in the white-fire sunlight that opens the stream of the eternal enfoldment within the bud until at last the flower upon the stalk and the perfume lure others also into the pathways of immortality, of Reality, of the ties of perfection that gird the world with strength.
O beloved mankind, the thoughtform which has been delivered unto you now is tangible and real, and a miniature replica of this thoughtform is conveyed to each one. Each hierarch has a golden replica already manufactured by the spiritual devas. Why, even the gandharvas are interested in the magnificence of this thoughtform serving to create and re-create new images in the mind of man that shall lead him to the eternal fulfillment.
Do not expect that each year is a year of absolute perfection being delivered unto man. It would not matter if mankind were to receive absolute perfection at the beginning of a year. Before the year had ended, human consciousness in its present state would have maligned that image.
We are aware of this, and that is why we produce so much perfection in this image. That is why we produce so much intensity in this image. That is why we produce such a desire for response in this image. It is because we know that if the stamp and pressure of this image is very great, if your hearts are deeply impressed with our love, with the thoughts of heaven for you and for all mankind, then there will go forth, there will fly forth into eternity a matrix that will never stop its onward movement.
And I want you to understand something, beloved hearts. At the end of each year there are the unfulfilled desires of God for that year, the cycles that mankind have let fall and slide through carelessness. But I want you to know something that we seldom reveal - that the impetus of God's thought for that year goes on like a riderless horse; its energies proceed eternally toward the mark, toward the Goal.
And now I am asking that all of the unfulfilled dreams and desires of previous years shall be gathered together and shall help to pull the advent thought for this year forward to fulfillment, and at last greater good shall come in 1973 than mankind realize.
I cannot tell you that there are not foreboding and dark thoughts also for the decade and for the year. But these need not destroy you or crush you if you will only understand the meaning of summoning God's will in your own heart's chalice and then fulfilling that will with all of your might and main.
When this occurs, we shall know that as you look to us, so we may look to you as a strong force into which we can deposit our energies. We can safely then find a place where we can nestle our great hopes for the world. And I tell you truly, when they nestle in a heart in physical embodiment, then the Law has declared that their strength is multiplied many, many times. Why this is so is a matter of divine law. For mankind here have the right to ask for embodied mankind those gifts and graces that they know are near and dear to the Heart of God.
And so I, Buddha, as I come to you this night, do dip my heart's pen into the beautiful, flowing, golden ink of cosmic dreams. I impress upon the universe that heaven has long waited for the fulfillment of many portions of these dreams, that many men and women have aborted these dreams from fulfillment for mankind.
Now it is our hope that by the power of the spiritual eye of Light within our forehead, the dreams of God be no passing fancies of men, but the accomplishments of living men and women whose devotion, written silently in the heart of the stars and the fire of a living universe, will produce the profound reality of a cosmic Christ-dream -
Beauty from the hillsides,
From the mountaintops,
Beauty from the plains,
And all that drops -
Beauty from a glistening rose,
A soul in profound joy,
Beauty that will stir the world
To ever-new magnificence!
Joy! Joy! Joy!
[The Lord of the World blesses the audience, and the Messenger Mark L. Prophet turns to the Mother of the Flame, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who rises to receive the benediction of the Buddha and the torch from the ascended Clara Louise Kieninger.]
The torch is passed.
The great chalice of hope is opened.
And the stream of gold, frankincense, and myrrh
Is the reality to the Christed Year 1973.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Gautama Buddha was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet January 1, 1973, during the New Year's Light of the World Conference in Santa Barbara, California.
Beloved Clara Louise was and is an inspiration to me on the Path of Life. She is the twin flame of Amen Bey, brother in the temple of Serapis Bey. ... Through the hand of the first Mother of the Flame, from the Lord of the World, came the dispensation for all of us to carry on. And the dispensation is a path of wisdom and of the teachings for the teaching of all of the world's children.
The torches must always be passed. One day you will pass a torch. The most important thing to remember about the passing of a torch is that the torch is a flame that burns. It is composed of many, many millions of flames. And each one of those flames is a petal - a petal of light and sacred fire.
As you go into the central sun of your Mighty I AM Presence and form and fashion your torch of Life, you will want to be certain, as those who have gone before us are certain, that the torch will contain all that the one who follows you on the Path will need in order to make it all the way Home.
I have mentioned to you that our beloved Mark signed my own copy of Climb the Highest Mountain with the words "May you win all the way." It is not enough that we wish victory upon someone, or winning. We want them to win all the way, every step of the way - not just today but to the hour of the ascension.
Every guru is concerned for the blessed chela - that he make it all the way home, else the Path should be in vain. Therefore you must be concerned for the chela you do not yet know, for the master you are to become - that even now you are forging a torch that you will one day pass. And when it comes time to pass the torch, there will be no time to say, "Wait a minute, I must create the torch." The torch must be there and burning.
The torch of Gautama Buddha, Clara Louise, and our own beloved Lanello were there - just seven weeks before his ascension. That very year of 1973, Summit University opened on a full-time basis - out of that torch. And all who have passed through its halls are free to ratify the will of God and receive one petal of the torch, one petal-flame that becomes a nucleus of your own torch to be passed in the hour and the appointing.